Lot 25

This US Triple Crown-winning sire boasts a southern hemisphere strike rate just short of 70% with 11 of his 166 locally-bred winners successful at Stakes level. And seven of those are bred on the same Justify/Sir Tristram cross as this fellow, noting that he is line-bred to the same family as Sir Tristram's legendary dam sire Round Table. From the family of the great Bonecrusher, he is out of a Stakes-winning half-sister to the G3-winning Melbourne Cup placegetter High Emocean. Her first foal is a winner, her second is a $400,000 yearling in the Hong Kong stables of Caspar Fownes and her third Excite is a recent impressive trial winner in New Zealand.

Lot 69

By a super stallion out of a mare by a superstar! Out of a half-sister to the French Stakes winner Stylistique from the family of Hong Kong Cup winner Eagle Mountain, he is bred on the same Wootton Bassett/Frankel (already dam sire of 24 Stakes winners) cross as the exciting G3 filly Nighttime and the same Wootton Bassett/Oasis Dream cross as the seven-time Stakes winner Chindit. Also at play here, is the Wootton Bassett/Selkirk cross which has three Stakes winners amongst its first ten winners. Line-bred to the wonderful mares Special, Thong and Mixed Marriage, this colt also boasts a cross of his own ancestress The Veil whose high achieving descendant Iffraaj is Wootton Bassett's sire. Frankieta's Ciaron Maher trained first foal Komito is showing nice talent.

Lot 104

Six of Wootton Bassett's G1 winners carry a strain of Teofilo's star sire Galileo, a cross which provides for the duplication of Special (one of the great modern-day line-breeding forces) via her son Nureyev and grandson Sadler's Wells (to whom Hint Of Pink is line-bred). Wootton Bassett also loves strains of Kris (Hint Of Pink's second dam sire) whose grandsire Atan is out of the wonderful mare Mixed Marriage - third dam of Wootton Bassett's great grandsire Gone West. A half-sister to last year's G1 winner Choisya, Hint Of Pink (descendant of the acclaimed matriarch Mumtaz Mahal) has already produced the Stakes winner Parchemin (a five-time winner from 16 starts) and her $340,000 two-year-old Rose Aye Reign easily won an Ellerslie trial in mid-February.

Lot 114

What a great job I Am Invincible's G1 son Hellbent continues to do with his 67.4% overall strike rate. The sire of 12 Stakes winners including the G1 fillies Magic Time and Benedetta, he also has 15 Stakes placegetters and 68 metropolitan winners... noting that 40% of his winners are at least city class! A winner who ran third in the Tasmanian 1000 Guineas, Husson's Kiss has made a terrific start to her broodmare career - her first foal the Stakes winner The Nephew and her second the city-placed three-time winner Another Nephew. And her third, Helluva Kiss, was a promising recent debut second for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable. Husson's Kiss is one of the five winners (from as many to race) for the Randwick winner Senro Kisaki whose daughter Rubisaki has won three Group races.

Lot 123

One of only five Melbourne Premier colts by reigning Australian Champion Sire Zoustar, he boasts a cross of Danehill's best son Redoute's Choice - as do nine of Zoustar's Stakes winners including the G1 sprinter Schwarz. Zoustar has worked especially well with Wandjina's sire Snitzel - a 79.6% strike rate with five of the first 39 winners being Stakes winners. The exciting unbeaten Ciaron Maher-trained 3YO, Educated, is the first Zoustar runner out of a mare by Wandjina, the Australian Guineas winner line-bred to Redoute's Choice's family. Eight of his first 11 runners as a broodmare sire are winners. This colt is the third foal for the lightly raced city-placed winner Indigenous whose first foal Howie Do It impressed with an easy debut win last spring. Her imported G3 winning dam Pasar Silbano is dam of Zoustar's G2-winning emerging sire son, Zousain.

Lot 166

Hailing from the first Yarraman conceived crop of the Japanese bred dual G1-winning sprinter Brave Smash who is doing such a good job with four Stakes winners including the G1 winner Kimochi from his initial Queensland books. Three of those horses, Kimochi included, are out of mares with Danehill whose VRC Derby-winning son Blackfriars (broodmare sire of 14 Stakes winners) is the sire of Like A Butterfly. The winner of three races including the Listed 1000 Guineas, she was one of Perth's best three-year-olds of her year with her seconds in the G3 WA Oaks and the G2 WA Derby both massive (and unlucky) performances. Stakes placed on another three occasions, she has passed on talent to her first foal Bauhinia, a $300,000 G2 placegetter who looks set for a good autumn on the back of a strong recent trial effort. A descendant of the famed matriarch Eulogy, Like A Butterfly is a granddaughter of the G1-placed triple Group winner Prime Again who has eight Stakes winners including the G1 winner Mizzy under her name.

Lot 282

With the G2 winner Kinnaird in his debut crop, the dual G1 winner Home Affairs is the ninth I Am Invincible stallion to sire a Stakes winner and the regally bred stallion looks set for a bright future. This filly is the first foal for a daughter of the Champion Sire Written Tycoon who has combined nicely with strains of I Am Invincible; this cross boasting an excellent 77.3% strike rate with three Stakes winners, four Stakes placegetters and seven city winners amongst the first 34 winners. An easy Geelong debut winner who ran well at her only try in Stakes class, Queen Of The Green is out of the very fast Magic Millions Classic and G3 Red Anchor Stakes winner Karuta Queen, the flashy chestnut who has also produced the Listed winner Eawase with her 2YO Daily Reward and her 3YO Poker both displaying above average talent. Karuta Queen's dam Card Queen was also a Stakes winner at two and this is the prolific My Evita family that produced the Caulfield Guineas winner Vitalic. Karuta Queen boasts multiple strains of the acclaimed matriarch Chelandry - ancestress of I Am Invincible.

Lot 289

Three times crowned Australian Champion Sire, Yarraman's own star I Am Invincible has just four Melbourne Premier colts and here is a chance to secure one from one of Australia's favourite families. A descendant of the wonderful matriarch Denise's Joy. That multiple G1 winner has certainly made her mark with this colt's G1 Queensland Oaks winning third dam Joie Denise being one of her 91 Stakes-winning descendants; another 14 of whom have won elite level races. One of I Am Invincible's 120 Stakes winners, the G2 galloper winner Justice League is also a member of this family whilst its most prolific G1 winner More Joyous is from the same branch as this colt whose city-placed three-time-winning dam is a half-sister to the G2 winner Castlereagh Kid. Vinnie has a great record with Fastnet Rock mares - 51 winners from 63 runners and seven Stakes winners - an outstanding 80.9% strike rate with an 11.1% Stakes winner ratio.

Lot 352

Three times crowned Australian Champion Sire, Yarraman's own star I Am Invincible has just four Melbourne Premier colts and here is a chance to secure one from one of Australia's favourite families. A descendant of the wonderful matriarch Denise's Joy. That multiple G1 winner has certainly made her mark with this colt's G1 Queensland Oaks winning third dam Joie Denise being one of her 91 Stakes-winning descendants; another 14 of whom have won elite level races. One of I Am Invincible's 120 Stakes winners, the G2 galloper winner Justice League is also a member of this family whilst its most prolific G1 winner More Joyous is from the same branch as this colt whose city-placed three-time-winning dam is a half-sister to the G2 winner Castlereagh Kid. Vinnie has a great record with Fastnet Rock mares - 51 winners from 63 runners and seven Stakes winners - an outstanding 80.9% strike rate with an 11.1% Stakes winner ratio.

Lot 404

One of the great High Chapparal's best sons, the six-time G1 winner Dundeel has proven to be an outstanding stallion with nine G1 winners amongst his 39 Stakes winners. Ten of Dundeel's runners out of O'Reilly (an outstanding broodmare sire influence with 154 Stakes winners including 31 Gr1 horses) mares are winners and he fares particularly well when the champion Mill Reef (6 X 5 X 5 here) is duplicated; two of his G1 winners bred that way as are three of his G1-winning grandchildren. A debut winner who enjoyed three further successes, Tigeen has, as her first foal, the four-length maiden winner Finca. Tigeen is one of the five winners for the well related Knocknacrea, a Green Desert daughter of the Shirley Heights Stakes winner Criquette who has made her mark in this part of the world as the third dam of Pierro and the fourth dam of Australia's most exciting 3YO Observer.

Lot 428

By Choisir's globe-trotting multiple G1 winner Starspangledbanner (a horse in such great form that his northern hemisphere service fee is at a career high), this half-sister to the Stakes-placed multiple city winner Direct and the promising 2YO Defensemen is out of a daughter of the star US stallion War Front whose daughters have produced 58 Stakes winners. A granddaughter of the G1-placed dual Group winner Up whose G1 Prix Morny-winning half-brother Dutch Art has done so well at stud, this filly is bred on the same Starspangledbanner/Galileo cross as the G1 winners Precise and Rhea Moon; one which has a 10% Stakes winner ratio. A lovely dual-purpose filly, she hails from one of the world's best families - as a descendant of the influential Simon's Shoes able to claim the likes of Sadler's Wells, Fairy King, Northern Meteor, Thatching and Nureyev amongst her relations

Lot 522

One of only four Melbourne Premier fillies by the superb success story that is Extreme Choice - dual G1-winning sire of a remarkable 18 Stakes winners (six at G1 level) amongst his first 108 winners from just 148 runners. Boasting an overall strike rate of 73% and a Stakes winner ratio of 12.2%, he is a truly remarkable stallion. There are only 24 yearling fillies by him, making this lass very much a jewel! And a well related one, being the first foal of a placed half-sister to the South African Horse Of The Year Igugu the G3 winner Honorius and the Listed winner Ngaga. They are amongst the 54 Stakes-winning descendants (nine of whom are G1 winners) of the UK Horse Of The Year Petite Etoile. The winner of 14 of her 19 starts, the descendant of the legendary Mumtaz Mahal is one of the best mares to have raced in England. And this filly's pedigree contains multiple strains of Mumtaz Mahal = pedigree power!

Lot 567

One of only two Melbourne Premier I Am Invincible fillies (and what great females he has sired!), she is bred on the outstanding I Am Invincible/Danehill cross as the G1 gallopers Home Affairs, Charm Stone, In Secret, Loving Gaby, Vinrock, Move To Strike and Marabi and another 32 of his Stakes winners; nearly a third of his total. Both horses are members of the Danzig line and that great stallion hails from the same family as Bletchingly (4 X 5 here) and I Am Invincible thrives on his duplication as well, combining with him in the pedigrees of 43 Stakes winners including his G1 winners Brazen Beau and Vinrock. This filly is the first foal for a dual Listed-winning full sister to the Listed winner Tena Koutou. Her Stakes-winning third dam Kia Ora Miss (winner of ten races) produced Constant Dreaming's talented three-quarter brother Kia Ora Koutou who was a game and unlucky third in the G1 VRC Derby won by Tarzino. The champion Red Anchor hails from the same branch of this prolific Black Ray (ancestress of Mill Reef and Blushing Groom) family.